Link.
Link.
Who else is excited? :D
Looks neat, but when does it come out? Lots of neat stuff coming in the next few months…
It doesn’t look so much like the heir to Dungeon Keeper as the bastard child of Pikmin and Dungeon Keeper. Still, I’m pretty damn interested.
You also have an avatar/character in the world, so it sounds BETTER than DK to me so long as they dont fuck anything up.
Psshht. The only avatar I need is my hand!
The only resemblance is the look of the main character and controlling crowds of goblins/imps. You can’t have a heir to Dungeon Keeper without the dungeon.
I thought you did have your dungeon (the tower) but could also venture out and attack towns in this…
There was a pretty nice preview in Play magazine in the February issue: sounds promising and the developer did this obscure strategy series called Age of Wonders, which you may have heard of.
Say, there was that Goblin Commander game from a couple years back; was it any good?
- Alan
The Age of Wonders games were excellt and in my opinion even surpassed the HoMM series. However, this is almost a whole new genre and the developer has got no experience in it. But it’s great to see they are still intending to create something fresh.
How could a 360 game ever be the successor to Dungeon Keeper? You mean the successor to Goblin Commander. :P
I’m a little excited about this. I’m not sure it’s exactly a Dungeon Keeper heir,
but more like a variation on Sacrifice, with elements like The Darkness has.
Nice troll.
I think you’re right, though. It might be like Pikmin and Goblin Commander, but it certainly has the look of a Dungeon Keeper game. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. I’m still excited.
I actually liked it, but I don’t really like most RTS games. It was paced perfectly for someone like me, and the gameplay was actually quite decent. If you enjoy hardcore RTS games with lot’s of micromanagement and detail and rushing games, it might be a bit slow for you.
It would almost be like if Mercenaries was too grand and open for you, you might enjoy The Outfit.
Good point. 360 games are, almost universally, far far far better than Dungeon Keeper.
I’m sorry, but the only thing DK had going for it IMO was the charm. The actual gameplay fell far short. And not just when I think about the kind of game I was hoping it would be ({snide Molyneaux hype comment}), but when I compared it to other real-time strategy games. It was so ridiculously shallow and easy.
Granted, I never played DK2, but everyone here (and I do mean every last person) would have to tell me it was a turn-around of Resident Evil 4 proportions to convince me to give it a shot.
I’m definitely more excited about Overlord (if only because I’m a shameless Age Of Wonders fanboy) than I ever would be over, say, the announcement of DK3. It’s a neat basic idea, but I have yet to see it executed well.
Yeah, but it was more action than strategy: closer to, say, Sacrifice (though not in its league) than Warcraft.
It used to be pretty easy to find GC in bargain bins, but I haven’t seen it anywhere in a long while.
I dunno bout DK1, never played it, but Dungeon Keeper 2 is one of my favorite games, ever.
I’m replaying it, actually, despite it occasionally crashing in the middle of a game, and it’s a ton of fun.
Believe this is in the works for PC as well. :)
Peter
AHHH!
THATS WHAT THAT GAME WAS CALLED!
Made by some former Blizzard employees? Yeah. That game was FUN, nothing revolutionary, but fun.
This game? Badass looking. We can only hope that its done well.
I thought DK2 was terrible for some reason. It lost the charm of the original game. For some reason the graphics were a major turn off compared to the original game as well. DK remains one of my favorite games even though the AI dungeon keepers were so incredibly terrible. Half the time they would just barricade themselves in their dungeon doing nothing.